Posted on 08/08/2007 4:26:18 AM PDT by Renfield
Army investigators have concluded that the private whose dispatches for the New Republic accused his fellow soldiers of petty cruelties in Iraq was not telling the truth....
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An investigation has been completed and the allegations made by Pvt. Beauchamp were found to be false," an Army statement said. "His platoon and company were interviewed and no one could substantiate the claims."...
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
You KNOW the evidence is overwhelming when even the Washington Post sides with The Weekly Standard (and conservative bloggers).....
“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.” Abraham Lincoln
“Always tell the truth. That way, you don’t have to remember what you said.” Mark Twain
Our soldiers are not monsters. Our military is honorably. Our mission is noble. The surge is working. Bush did not “lie.”
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
One wonders what their Cover-Your-A$$ statement for today will be.
... and this fellow has earned his place in the Hall of Shame right next to Jessie MacBeth...
Mark Feldstein, a journalism professor at George Washington University, called the Army's refusal to release its report "suspect," adding: "There is a cloud over the New Republic, but there's one hanging over the Army, as well. Each investigated this and cleared themselves, but they both have vested interests."
What the esteemed journalism professor from George Washington University fails to acknowledge is that the Army is tasked with defending the Nation while The New Republic is tasked with writing a third-rate magazine that nobody reads.
I doubt that the cloud over the US Army is all that big, relative to the mission.
Bump
looks like TNR is going to try to ride this out which i find to be an additional outrageous statement against our military at a time of great sacrifice on their part. who are the magazine’s advertisers? sounds like time to include them in this by way of letter-writing, boycott talk........
Now I know what was so smelly about this guy and his story.
It must be absolutely killing the comPost to print this. The lame stream media wanted this story to be true sooo bad, and now they’re running for cover.
These were not considered very "petty" when the WAPO thought they were true.
When Beauchamp went public last month, he said in a statement that it was "maddening, to say the least, to see the plausibility of events that I witnessed questioned by people who have never served in Iraq."Kurtz, why did Beauchamp use "plausibility" and not "veracity", "truthfulness" or any other word that would mean the events were more than likely or possible but actual? How many clues do you need?
Howie Kurtz and WaPo have their own hanging cloud... but this one stinks.
New Republic Asks Military To Prove Their Lies
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The saga of Pvt Beauchamp (married to someone at the New Republic no less) is one of propaganda lies placed in media outlets to spin falsehoods about our military and their activities in Iraq. It is a shameless and near criminal act of lying to the public face on. The Weekly Standard hit the news yesterday claiming Beauchamp had recanted. The Army is not providing details and the New Republic (of Lies) is standing by their ‘investigation’ (not by an outside group of course) that the stories are true. So what does the New Republic do when faced with an Army conclusion that the stories are false? They demand the military share their internal investigation details with them:
Yesterday, The New Republic posted another note on its Web site saying its editors had spoken to Major Lamb and asked whether Private Beauchamp had indeed signed a statement admitting to fabrications. “He told us, ‘I have no knowledge of that.’ He added, ‘If someone is speaking anonymously [to The Weekly Standard], they are on their own.’ When we pressed Lamb for details on the Army investigation, he told us, ‘We don’t go into the details of how we conduct our investigations.’
In an e-mail message, Mr. Foer said, “Thus far, we’ve been provided no evidence that contradicts our original statement, despite directly asking the military for any such evidence it might have,” adding, “We hope the military will share what it has learned so that we can resolve this discrepancy.”
Why does the Army owe the New Republic anything? Beauchamp has recanted parts of his lies already (one of his fantastic Iraq stories never happened in Iraq we now know).
George Washington University is full of Marxists,...especially the Law Department...
When do lunatic libs stop lying?
When they assume room temperature (but they can still vote)
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